cold weekend

i caught joa's cold when i (he had insisted that i) "raped" him on sat morning so the trip to the zoo and the jog in chaoyang park was called off. but we made it to the olympic stadium to watch some national heats since joa was given two free admission tix.

as an incentive to make me move my ass all the way to the haidian district at 9am on a sat morning, he promised to take me to ginza mall for mac breakfast even tho we were running late. thankfully we did because we've nv tasted hashbrowns this good.

the bird nest looked rather imposing from a distance. not big, huge and stately, but rather like an uncompleted structure still on construction. the night before, i'd asked joa what was the dresscode for the visit and he said, "bird nest clothes".

we took our seats which had a fantastic view of the entire stadium and surprisingly, i was having a great time. i think that was becos being at a sports stadium where you're allowed to talk at the top of your voice about the poor people running about while u sit in the shade slurping a cool drink is really quite a thrilling feeling. and joa was happily talking about the events and the atheletes and we got chatting and the lady in front kept looking back with a snarl. well, i didn't say anything about that pungent fish snack she brought in that smelled like a rotting fish. at first i'd ask joa if he'd brushed his teeth in the morning.

the spring weather is getting terribly warm. and it's starting to make me realise that beijing is really a desert town. we walked for almost 40mins under the sun to sanlitun to our favourite yunnan restaurant for lunch. i'll put up pix of the food next. but we had a sumptuous meal of black pepper mushroom, veggies in seafood sauce and a chicken potato stew with 2 bowls of rice each and 4 cups of ice tea. i love going to this restaurant with joa. it's inexpensive and the quality is fantastic. best of all, they serve some of the most amazing ice teas (with ice!) in all of beijing. so we usually leave the restaurant with a contented stomach and a very happy mood.

we went home and with the rest of our energy did a major wipedown of the house. he swept and wiped while i moped with our new mop, pail and floor detergent. and after a warm bath, we both collapsed on the sofa and put on a dvd. that night i took him to bookworm for chips and cola but we didnt really enjoy it as much because there was some function going on and we had to sit on the roof terrace where it was cooler and quieter but too dark to read.

on sunday, we dragged our feet to church. endured a most uneventful sermon and later had lunch at a manchurian restaurant with 10 other students from BLCU. young, fresh and so innocent. i've lost all of that. by then joa and i were feeling really sick so back home for more DVDs. we had a dixie asian-american gal come to view our flat. she's really cute and my type of chum so we're really hoping she'd become our flatmate.

last night joa tried singapore-styled fried oyster omelette only we replaced oysters with fishballs. and it tasted wonderful. we also invented another dish that we copied from bellagio restaurant - a taiwanese fine dining restaurant we went to two weeks back - fried long beans with salted egg. cheap and very tasty. we had porridge with it. i shall put up the pix soon since i'm finally resigned and getting back into the course of using my 2.0megapixels ixus.